. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. GOUGH'S CAVE 1: ASSESSMENT OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE 41 lines. As Ruff has found, there is good separation of the Europeans from the Sub-Saharan Africans throughout most of the size range. Informatively, Gough's Cave 1 falls squarely on the European re- gression line, far above the Sub-Saharan African line. Multivariate Assessment of Body Shape Any assessment of an individual's body size and proportions is at its base an assessment of that individual's total morphological pattern. While the individual analyses presented above when consider
. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. GOUGH'S CAVE 1: ASSESSMENT OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE 41 lines. As Ruff has found, there is good separation of the Europeans from the Sub-Saharan Africans throughout most of the size range. Informatively, Gough's Cave 1 falls squarely on the European re- gression line, far above the Sub-Saharan African line. Multivariate Assessment of Body Shape Any assessment of an individual's body size and proportions is at its base an assessment of that individual's total morphological pattern. While the individual analyses presented above when considered as a whole provide tantalizing clues as to the total morphological pattern of the Cheddar Man, these analyses are likely not as informative as would be a multivariate assessment based on the same morphologi- cal variables. In fact, a multivariate analysis may be expected to resolve some of the conflicting results obtained above. For example, in relative body linearity, relative body breadth and limb/trunk (excepting the tibia) proportions, the Gough's Cave specimen looks essentially like a recent European (albeit occasionally at the more linear end of the European range). In contrast, his tibia/trunk, bra- chial, and especially his crural index are more similar to those of more tropically-adapted groups (, Africans). What then, is the total morphological pattern of body size and shape exhibited by Gough's Cave 1? The way to discover this is to investigate overall body proportions in multivariate space, taking the variances and covariances of all the skeletal manifestations of body shape into account. Once this is done, Gough's Cave 1 will either continue to fall among recent Europeans, or he could possibly exhibit a somewhat different, more tropically-adapted pattern. The variables to be used in the multivariate analysis and their abbreviations are found in Table 7. Note that these measurements are the same variables used to compute ratios and/or which were plotted in bi
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